はる

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of はる – see the following entries.

【春】2 [noun] the spring (season) [noun] (by extension) the New Year [noun] adolescence, youth [noun] a heyday of one’s life [noun] a time of happiness after a long period of difficulty [noun] (slang, euphemistic) sexual intercourse

【張る】 [verb] to spread, to fill [verb] to swell [verb] put up, spread [verb] to stretch a rope, to post a cordon [verb] to stick out (arms, chest), to be prominent [verb] to slap [verb] to be nervous, to be tense [verb] to be expensive [verb] to speculate, to stake money on [verb] to add (water) until a container is full

【貼る】 [verb] to stick, to paste [verb] to post (a message or an image)

(This term, はる (haru), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as はる, see Category:Japanese kanji read as はる.)

Suffix

はる • (-haru) 

1. (Kansai) verbal suffix expressing respect to subject of verb; X-a-haru is equivalent to standard o-X-i ni naru.
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     土(ひじ)方(かた)はんって　二(に)枚(まい)目(め)やしクールやし

     Hijikata-hantte nimaime yashi kūru yashi

     Hijikata-han, yer so cool and handsome!

     さぞモテはるんでしょ？

     Sazo moteharun desho?

     Ah bet yer very popular with the ladies! Ain’tcha?

     そうでもねーよ

     Sō demo nē yo

     Nah, not really

     いややわ〰ウソばっかり

     Iyayawa~ uso bakkari

     No waaay~ I don’t believe that

     土(ひじ)方(かた)はん　土(ひじ)方(かた)はん

     Hijikata-han Hijikata-han

     Hijikata-han, Hijikata-han

     アレ？それ　何(なに)食(た)べてはるん？

     Are? Sore nani tabete harun?

     Eh? Whatcha eatin’ there?

     お茶(ちゃ)づけ土(ひじ)方(かた)スペシャルだ　食(く)うか？

     Ochazuke Hijikata Supesharu da Kuu ka?

     Ochazuke Hijikata Special. Want some?

Usage notes

Characteristic of Kyoto 敬語 (keigo, honorific/court language), used throughout Kansai dialect. Intermediate in politeness between base (informal) form of verb and polite -masu form, though in Kyoto widely used in casual speech, and much closer to informal.

• In Osaka and surrounding areas, attaches to -masu stem.
• In Kyoto and surrounding areas, such as Nara and Shiga, attaches to -a inflection of verb; with vowel stems, takes epenthetic -ya-
  • toor-u (to pass) → toora-haru. ik-u (to go) → ika-haru.
  • mi-ru (to see) → mi-haru or mi-ya-haru. i-ru (to be) → i-haru or i-ya-haru. suru (to do) → shi-haru or shi-ya-haru. kuru (to come) → ki-haru or ki-ya-haru.
• After て form of verb, sometimes て changes た, is equivalent to irassharu: kangaete haru or kangaeta haru (= kangaete irassharu).
• 〜はる can in turn take ます for additional politeness, yielding 〜はります, and other polite endings such as 〜んです, yielding 〜はるんです.

Conjugation

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	はら	hara
Continuative (連用形)	はり	hari
Terminal (終止形)	はる	haru
Attributive (連体形)	はる	haru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	はれ¹	hare¹
Imperative (命令形)	はれ¹	hare¹
Key constructions
Passive	-	-
Causative	-	-
Potential	-	-
Volitional	-	-
Negative	はらへん はれへん はらん	harahen harehen haran
Negative continuative	-	-
Formal	はります	harimasu
Perfective	はった	hatta
Conjunctive	はって	hatte
Hypothetical conditional	はれば¹ はったら	hareba¹ hattara
¹ Rare, especially Imperative form.

Conjugation of "はる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

References

• Palter, DC and Slotsve, Kaoru Horiuchi (1995). Colloquial Kansai Japanese: The Dialects And Culture of the Kansai Region. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing. →ISBN, pp. 32–34